10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOWDIE»
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Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the ...
MOUDLE, Mowdie, *□ A mole, 8.— Su. G. mullwad has the same meaning, V.
Mowdt. MOTJDY HILLAN, *. A mole-hill, Gall. Davidxon' ш Seasons. V. H ILLA».
MOüDLE-SKIN, í. A moleb-skln. Village Fair. Blockte. Mag. The purees of the ...
John Jamieson, John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.), John Longmuir,
1867
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
MOWDY, Mowdie, Moudie, s. A mole, S. A., Dumfr., Gall. Wi' hungry maw he
scoors frae knowe to knowe, In hopes of food in motvdy, mouse, or streaw.
Davidson's Poems, p. 4. V. what is said, as to the origin, under Moudie. Mowdie-
brod, s.
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Wayside flowers: being poems and songs
Ye maun gae out i' the gloamin', atween sun-down and dark ; ye maun put a buss
o' broom, wi' towi' the tap o't, into ilka hillock; an' as ye put them in ane by ane, yo
maun say three times — " O Mowdie ! Mowdie I come ye agen, There's tow i' ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
MOWDY, Mowdie, Moudie,*. A mole, S. A., Dumfr., Gall. Wi' hungry maw he
scoors frae knowe to knowe, In hopes of food in motvdy, mouse, or streaw.
Davidson's Poems, p. 4. V. what is said, as to the origin, under Moudie. Mowdie-
brod, s.
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The Folk-speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent: ...
Mowdie, S ; Mowdie-warp, C, the mole. " The mowdie powler't oot o' the yirth, An'
kyss't the soger's feet." Telfer. The Gloaming Bucht. "An' teeak us intil lile hooals
under t' grOnd, ameeast like mowdie-warps." — XtV. T. Clarke. Johnny Shippard
...
Alexander Craig Gibson,
1869
Mowdie Robinson and Joe Armstrong. fell-terrier breeders and, like most
Lakelanders, is of farming stock, though after the First World War his father
forsook farming for mole catching, poisoning and trapping moles around
Cockermouth.
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
... s, chaft-tuith. molasses see treacle. mole1 (animal) mowdiewort, mowdie- warp
, mowdie. mole-catcher molie, mowdie, mow- dieman. molehill mowdie(wort)hill.
skin of a mole mowdieskin. mole2 (on skin) rasp, mowdiewort humorous. molest
...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns,
1999
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Daridson's Poems. MOWDIE-BROD, s. A board on the Scottish plough, which
turned over the furrow, now exchanged for a cast-iron plate denominated a Fur-
side, S. Probably a corr. of Mould-board. V. Mowninwon'r-Bunn. MOWDIE-
HILLOCK ...
John Jamieson, John Johnstone,
1846
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American Cotswold Record
Spring 1899. John Mejer. Mowdie 16951. Kaoli 17627. do do Mowdie 16951.
Kaoll 17627. do do Mowdie 16951. Kassola 17632. do do Mowdie 16951.
Kasonga 17630. do do Mowdie 16951. Kikoka 17644. do do Mowdie 16951.
Kasenga ...
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The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-century Scottish Poetry
Molecatcher Albert D. Mackie Strampin' the bent, like the Angel o' Daith, The
mowdie-man staves by; Alang his pad the mowdie-worps Like sma' Assyrians lie.
And where the Angel o' Daith has been, Yirked oot o' their yirdy hames, Lie ...
Maurice Lindsay, Lesley Duncan,
2005
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Frederic Lindsay
On his death he was writing a novel with the working title The Mowdie Man (The Mole Catcher). He met his wife Shirley in 1954 in the Mitchell ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 13»